The Millhopper Book Club meets the first T uesday of each month. You do not have to read the book to attend the meeti ng.
\nIn June\, we'll be discussing Pineappl e Street by Jenny Jackson. "A deliciously funny\, sharply observe d novel of family\, wealth\, love and tennis\, this zeitgeisty debut follo ws three women in an old Brooklyn Heights clan: one who was born with mone y\, one who married into it\, and one\, the millennial conscience of the f amily\, who wants to give it all away. Darley\, the eldest daughter in the Stockton family\, has never worried about money. The product of generatio nal wealth and capitalist success\, Darley renounced her inheritance when she married Malcolm\, a first generation Korean American with a lucrative job in banking. Sasha\, Darley's new sister-in-law\, has come from more hu mble origins\, and her hesitancy about signing a pre-nup has everyone worr ied about her intentions. Georgiana\, newly graduated from Brown and proud to think of herself as a "do-gooder\," has enough money from her trust th at she's able to work for a pittance at a not-for-profit\, where she has s tarted a secret love affair with a senior colleague. But when a scandal de rails Malcolm's career\, leaving Darley financially in the lurch\, when Sa sha glimpses the less-than-attractive attributes beneath the Stockton broo d's carefully-guarded façade\, and when Georgiana discovers her boyfri end is married and still in love with his wife\, they must all come to ter ms with what money can't buy--the bonds of love that can make and unmake a family. Rife with the indulgent pleasures of affluent WASPS in New York a nd full of recognizable if fallible characters (and a couple of appalling ones!)\, it's about the peculiar unknowability of someone else's family\, about the haves and have-nots and the nuances in between\, and the insanit y of first love.&rdquo\; Description provided by the publisher
\nEvent Contact: Beth Noll\, bnoll@aclib.us
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